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Better introspection functions: info/repr
Currently, the info() method of container / dict traits only use the default Instance implementation, leading to rather uninformative information when there are restrictions on the elements, e.g. with a complex structure along the lines of:
trait = Tuple((
CFloat(33),
Unicode('default', allow_none=True),
List(Int(0), min_length=3),
))
the info string will simply be 'a tuple'.
Separately, it would be nice if the base trait types included a __repr__, so that a trait could be introspected without having to refer to the source (especially useful for traits constructed dynamically).